Tag: coherence

3d rendered medically accurate illustration of a sprinter

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Howard Glicksman

Date
July 5, 2023

Tagged
abiogenesis, amoebas, bad design, bad-design arguments, body plan, cancer, cancer research, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiovascular system, cellular life cycle, choking, coherence, complex interdependencies, constrained optimization, Darwinian Evolution, degradation, design evaluation, design optimization, dysteleology, engineering trade-offs, Evolution, fertilization, Howard Glicksman, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, life from life, Louis Pasteur, pharynx, physiological fine tuning, respiratory system, sexual reproduction, sodium pumps, spontaneous generation, Steve Laufmann, systems biology, theory of biological design, throat, whales, windpipe, Your Designed Body, zygote}

Engineering, not Evolution, Explains the Body

_{Howard Glicksman

July 5, 2023

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The groundbreaking recent book Your Designed Body is the focus of today’s ID the Future. Here in Part 2 of a two-part conversation with host Wesley J. Smith, the two authors, systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman, delve deeper into the exquisite, multi-layered fine tuning of the human body. They point to essential systems within systems within systems—irreducible complexity cubed, if you will. They also respond to the charge that aspects of the human body are poorly designed and, therefore, are supposedly better explained by the blind process of Darwinian evolution. Laufmann identifies five common errors that Darwinists make when pushing this bad-design argument. All of the errors involve an ignorance of key engineering principles, he says, one of them being a failure to consider the principle of constrained optimization. This episode is reposted at ID the Future by permission of Wesley J. Smith and the Humanize podcast. Read More ›

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Author
Steve Laufmann

Date
January 11, 2023

Tagged
biochemistry research, coherence, coordination, Darwinism, engineering, engineering principles, Evolution, evolutionary gradualism, foresight, Howard Glicksman, human physiology, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Michael Egnor, orchestration, planning, protein folding, push-pull principle, specialization, Steve Laufmann, systems biology, the rule of composition, Your Designed Body}

A Neurosurgeon and an Engineer Explore Your Designed Body

_{Steve Laufmann

January 11, 2023

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On today’s ID the Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor hosts systems engineer Steve Laufmann, author with physician Howard Glicksman of the new book Your Designed Body. Egnor makes the surprising confession that his medical library is full of engineering texts because at some point he discovered that engineering texts, and engineering principles, often shed more light on human physiology than did his physiology books. Egnor, then, is extraordinarily well prepared to interview Laufmann about the amazing engineering of the human body. Tune in for Part 1, and stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3.

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Author
JP Moreland

Date
February 21, 2018

Tagged
coherence, logic, Materialism, philosophy of science, theistic evolution, Theology}

Theistic Evolution Has a Logic Problem, Materialism Has a History Problem

_{JP Moreland

February 21, 2018

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Today on ID the Future we hear from the editors of the major new Crossway book, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique. Philosophers J.P. Moreland and Stephen Meyer examine contradictions right at the heart of theistic evolution, answer logical challenges directed back at intelligent design theory, and explain more than one severe issue with thinking science ever has or ever could thrive on its own, without strong support from both philosophy and theology.